About some problem

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Jan 2 23:46:06 EST 2014


On 03/01/2014 04:18, Ethan Furman wrote:
> On 01/02/2014 05:14 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>> On 02/01/2014 23:49, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>> Mark Lawrence wrote:
>>>
>>>> raise "Not Valid DB Type"
>>>>
>>>> is perfectly valid in Python 2.
>>>
>>> Actually, no it isn't. It's only valid up to Python 2.4. In Python 2.5,
>>> string exceptions display a warning but continue to work, and in
>>> Python 2.6
>>> they generate a compile-time SyntaxError.
>>>
>>
>> Thaanks for the correction.
>>
>>> You know how the world ended when Python 2.6 broke backwards
>>> compatibility
>>> and split the Python community into two? No, me neither.
>>>
>>
>> I'm 100% certain that you're wrong on this one, the split was simply
>> never noticed by anybody :)
>
> Actually, the split was so severe the universe itself noticed and split
> into two -- one where folks noticed, and one where nobody did... I
> wonder which one we're in?
>
> --
> ~Ethan~
>

The one where Breamore's at the centre.

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what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence




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